Il American-Chicago Suburban, IL Water Quality
Il American-Chicago Suburban: EPA violation history, explained
Il American-Chicago Suburban has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 11,187, over 4,488 connections.
Il American-Chicago Suburban's record against the rest of the country
Il American-Chicago Suburban has 8 violations on record in total, 4 of them health-based - ranking it 4,466th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 65th percentile nationally.
Against the IL average
IL's 572 covered systems average 5.1 health-based violations each; Il American-Chicago Suburban carries 4, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Il American-Chicago Suburban's most recent violation on record is dated 1995-01-02, with the most recent health-based one dated 1989-01-12. Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
The concern categories on record
Il American-Chicago Suburban's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Il American-Chicago Suburban's record does not cover
Il American-Chicago Suburban's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for Il American-Chicago Suburban - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.